d20 Past art gallery up...

[jaerdaph]

As far as Napoleonics goes, I've been considering doing a PDF release based on the D20 Napoleonic Fantasy setting I worked up for an RPGnet column 4 years ago, but I've never quite been sure about the sale-ability of it.

Now that Adamant is going all out in the PDF market, do you think ePublishing makes you more likely to take a risk on developing something like this, or is ebook vs. print not really part of that decision making process?

 

[JPL]

Kalman Andrasofszky is my favorite WotC artist. It's great to see him do some pulpy past art.

With that said...

This is an add-on to d20 Modern, right? Meaning it requires d20 Modern? Meaning that there's nothing wrong with the mage, acolyte and occultist classes in d20 Modern, and the pages of essentially D&D monsters?

-sigh-

It's an add-on, yes.

Hopefully, the shaman, sorcerer, mesmerist, and spiritualist classes will be different enough from the regular magic/psi classes in d20 Modern to justify their inclusion in such a short book. These classes may be particularly well-suited for other eras of play. If I want to play an Old West Native American shaman, or a Victorian spiritualist, I'm pretty sure there are better ways of modelling that than the Acolyte class.

Some of the monsters are familiar from D&D, some aren't. Hyde and the Baskerville Hound are both very tied to a particular era, and a few of the other monsters are very much at home in a fantastic pirate campaign.

 

[The Shaman]

This is an add-on to d20 Modern, right? Meaning it requires d20 Modern? Meaning that there's nothing wrong with the mage, acolyte and occultist classes in d20 Modern, and the pages of essentially D&D monsters?

-sigh-

Or the Telepath.

Thirty pages of stuff that won't be "past."

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[jaerdaph]

As long as they don't have all that Scribe Tattoo magical body art or that New Age Power Crystal stuff in the class abilities list, then I'll be happy.

 

[Gomez]

I would like to see some nice aircraft rules for dog fighting, tricky maneuvers, chases, and the like. Plus some indepth weapon stats by era.

 

[ragboy]

Atlas Games upcoming Northern Crown setting looks promising.

Aye! I used the author's web-published free-ware rules. His fencing rules were excellent! Unfortunately, the free rules are gone...

I'm looking for some pretty specific stuff in d20 Past:

- Swashbuckler era - 1500's to 1700's. I'd really like someone to do a complete campaign setting for these. I can do it, but it takes so dern long to research. Northern Crown might be the answer. I have a campaign queued up right now for this, though it's using d20 Modern stats with some house rules.

- WWII - I've got a couple of WWII supplements, but they were all too magic heavy or didn't make sense. I've kludged some rules out of all these sources, but I'd like to see one book covering the whole darn war.

 

[Krieg]

- WWII - I've got a couple of WWII supplements, but they were all too magic heavy or didn't make sense. I've kludged some rules out of all these sources, but I'd like to see one book covering the whole darn war.

The WWII Polyhedron mini-game had some nice really nice mechanics that I haven't really seen covered anywhere else.

Not a whole lot background info though of course.

 

[GMSkarka]

Now that Adamant is going all out in the PDF market, do you think ePublishing makes you more likely to take a risk on developing something like this, or is ebook vs. print not really part of that decision making process?

This is a great topic for its own thread (perhaps in the ePublishers forum)...but, since you asked here, I'll answer here (apologies for the mini thread-jack):

I am much more likely to take a risk because the whole way of doing business is different--it's a lot harder to take that kind of risk when you're looking at a minimum outlay of 10-20K to produce print products.

 

[Yuan-Ti]

And it would be fairly easy to become the top Napoleonic RPG.

Was GURPS Napoleon ever released? If not, it's been in playtest for more than three years.

 

[Fate Lawson]

Yes, GURPS Napoleon was released. Being a fan of Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's series, and Forrester's and Aubrey's works, I have been thinking about a Napoleonic supplement myself. But I'm only 1/5 of the DHR gang, so it may be a long time coming. IMO the key to a good Napoleonic setting would be a good, scalable mass combat system. Something that can handle everything from small units to Grand Armee's.